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George Leigh Mallory Biography

George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924):546-547 was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest, in the early 1920s.

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We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

Climbing, Eat, Enjoy, Happiness, Live, Mean

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

Absolute, Feelings, Harmony, Kind, Pure, Ultimate

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

Gesture, Highest, Mountain, Nature, Travel, Vast

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

Asked, Climb, Climbs, Everest, Wanted

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

Charm, Climbing, Half, Hiking, Remote, Vision

Mountaineers have often observed a lack of clarity in their mental state at high altitudes; it is difficult for the stupid mind to observe how stupid it is.

Hiking, Lack, Mind, Stupid

One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . .

Achieve, Conquer, Dared, Dream, Win, Winning

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

Climb, Everest, Mount, Mount Everest, Mt Everest

So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.

Adventure, Joy, Mean, Mountain, Struggle

The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure.

Adventure, Danger, Danger In Life, Life, Life Is, Take

My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.

Believe, Constant, Mind, Rebellion, State

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money.

Joy, Life, Money, Motivational, Sheer

Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my feet, to eat from time to time, to sleep a little and dream a great deal- it is a heavenly existence.

Biggest, Dream, Europe, Lying, Sleep, White

I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to see the other side.

Door, Doors, Effort, Snow, World

- Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest, Sir? - Because it is there.

Climb, Climbing, Everest, Sir, Trekking, Want

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